Thursday, October 27, 2011

Killerproject - the naked license agreement

License agreements, terms of use, lines and lines of words that get unnoticed every day (who has time to read 60 pages of legalese ?) but are very important, expecially when things go wrong.

So, why not create a great online service for the management and analysis of this documentation?

The naked EULA


What should this hypothetical service do ?

It will store the localized versions of the license agreement of a lot of applications and services reported by users. It will extract the most important information, translating into summaries and / or infographics. It will highlight the risks and differences with EULAs of other similar services. It will highlight the differences between different versions of the EULA of the same service.

How to use it ?


Do you need have to sign up to a new online service? Go on TNEULA (The Naked EULA) and check the summary and the various 'traps' that are awaiting you, but without reading the entire blob of text.

Have you got yet another update of the iTunes terms of use ? Go to TNEULA and it will only shows what's new since the previous version.

Do you have some doubts about the conditions and responsibilities of Sony in the use of your sensitive data and credit card? Go on TNEULA and it will highlight this specific part.

What do you think? Do you like it ? I could definitely become a regular user. And even a user much more aware of the services it is subscribed to.

Who starts to write it ?


[this post is a lazy translation of the original one, in italian language]

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